Learn to lessen your primary defense mechanism | Type 4 After our most recent 9-part blog series on the topic of how our defense mechanisms serve as guardians of our type-based ego structures, many people asked for ideas about how
Learn to lessen your primary defense mechanism | Type 3
After our most recent 9-part blog series on the topic of how our defense mechanisms serve as guardians of our type-based ego structures, many people asked for ideas about how to work with and lessen our defense mechanisms. This new
Topic of the month | idle chatter
Topic of the month | idle chatter Words that are thought or spoken “with no purposeful intent at all” ~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu What words fall into the territory of “idle chatter?” Doesn’t all chatter have a purpose? Bhikkhu’s concept of
Learn to lessen your primary defense mechanism | Type 2
Learn to lessen your primary defense mechanism | Type 2 After our most recent 9-part blog series on the topic of how our defense mechanisms serve as guardians of our type-based ego structures, many people asked for ideas about how
Learn to lessen your primary defense mechanism | Type 1
Learn to lessen your primary defense mechanism | Type 1 After our most recent 9-part blog series on the topic of how our defense mechanisms serve as guardians of our type-based ego structures, many people asked for ideas about how
Development | Tear off the mask
Tear off the mask. Your face is glorious. ~ Rumi Each of our Enneagram types are a persona, a mask we wear that covers so many things: our fears, the parts of us we don’t want to see within ourselves
Defense Mechanism: Guardians of our Type-based Ego structure | Type 9
This blog series describes how the primary defense mechanism for each Enneagram type functions as a guardian of the type-based ego structure, and this particular blog focuses on Enneagram type 9. You’ll learn the following: how the type-based fixation and
Defense Mechanism: Guardians of our Type-based Ego Structure | Type 8
This blog series describes how the primary defense mechanism for each Enneagram type functions as a guardian of the type-based ego structure, and this particular blog focuses on Enneagram type 8. You’ll learn the following: how the type-based fixation and
Defense Mechanism: Guardians of our Type-based Ego Structure | Type 7
This blog series describes how the primary defense mechanism for each Enneagram type functions as a guardian of the type-based ego structure, and this particular blog focuses on Enneagram type 7. You’ll learn the following: how the type-based fixation and
Defense Mechanism: Guardians of our Type-based Ego Structure | Type 6
This blog series describes how the primary defense mechanism for each Enneagram type functions as a guardian of the type-based ego structure, and this particular blog focuses on Enneagram type 6. You’ll learn the following: how the type-based fixation and